Penn High’s Football Team took on South Bend Adams on Friday, Sept. 23, 2019. The Kingsmen defeated Adams, 62-32.

A Photo Gallery is posted below.

The Penn Girls Soccer Team won the prestigious Canterbury Invitational in Fort Wayne on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019.

A Photo Gallery is posted below.

Penn High School will host the annual Carnival of Bands on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019.

Tickets cost $7.

“We are always so proud to host 35 bands from across the state,” Penn High School Fine Arts and Communications Academy Leader Glenn Northern said. “All of these groups have worked for countless hours to learn and perfect their shows.

“We look forward to having everyone together on our campus on September 28^th.”

^{The Marching Kingsmen will perform a special exhibition at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28.}

^{Click here for the complete schedule.}

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The current  Fall 2019 Art Exhibit features The Kingsmen Art Gallery’s first professional show, “Living Waters” works by the Indiana Women’s Caucus for Art. This traveling exhibition is centered around current threats to the Great Lakes water system.

The Indiana Women’s Caucus for the Art (IWCA) is a local chapter of the WCA. The Penn Kingsmen Art Gallery is fortunate to be the third stopping place for this traveling art show. It has previously been on display at the Crossroads Gallery in the Notre Dame Center for the Arts and Culture and at the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University in Bloomington.

The show runs through Wednesday, Oct. 30.

Current Gallery Hours for Sept. 18 – Oct. 30:

• During School: Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 3:10 p.m. 
• After school Hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
• Wed., Oct. 30: Closing Reception for “Living Waters” exhibit, 4:30-5:30
  Indiana Women’s Caucus for the Arts Meeting to follow from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., Room 154

The Gallery needs more student docent volunteers to help keep the gallery open after school 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Please see Miss Miller in Room 154 or email bmiller@phm.k12.in.us if interested.  

The Penn Kingsmen played St. Xavier of Cincinnati and Homewood-Floosmoor (Ill.) in Weeks 3 and 4 of the 2019 Football Season.

A Photo Gallery is posted below.

The 2019 Penn High School Powder Puff Game was played on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019.

A Photo Gallery is posted below.

The Penn Volleyball Team beat South Bend Clay 3-0 on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.

A Photo Gallery is posted below.

Today the Lady Kingsmen Softball team had their turn to break in their new turf field.

Head Coach Beth Zachary led the team in their 1st practice on the new softball field this afternoon.

Penn-Harris-Madison Superintendent Dr. Jerry Thacker and Penn High School Principal Sean Galiher even tried their arm at underhand pitching.

Take a look …

A Photo Gallery is posted below.

Three years ago thanks to a P-H-M Education Foundation grant Penn High School Early College teacher Mr. John Gensic had an idea that was able to take root … to plant fruit orchards at some PHM elementary schools; the first was planted at Horizon Elementary. He had elementary students and his Early College students plant the trees in a field behind Horizon.

Now the project is literally bearing fruit! Recently current 3rd graders of Ms. Marci Messer & the students who helped plant the orchard three years ago (who are now Discovery students) went apple & pear pickin'! Click to see the full photo gallery on Horizon’s website.

Watch the video …

Penn High School Principal Sean Galiher announced that 12 Penn students have been named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists. Penn’s number of National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists is the second most among Indiana high schools.

Richard Chapple, Abbie Clay, Rajeev Datta, Andrew Kaboski, Noah Lang, Lyvia Li, Kyler Logan, Yewon Oh, David Simonetti, Seunghoon Sun, Karen Wang and Peter Yang were named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists.

“We are extremely proud of these students,” Galiher said. “This accomplishment is a culmination of the great efforts of these students including all the wonderful teachers they have had while attending P-H-M schools.”

Approximately 16,000 students across the nation were named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million.

More than 1.5 million juniors at 21,000 high schools participated in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test in 2018.

National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, and are the highest scoring entrants in their state.